Britannia, she’s half-English, she speaks Latin at home

In the last week or so, I've been doing ( some geeky stuff at work )

This afternoon I was once again grappling with an intractable problem and, having found no help in the documentation, was wading through newsgroup posts from aeons ago.

I eventually found this post which addresses exactly the problem I was having. It took me several goes to digest it, because the writer is obviously not someone with English as a first language. I should add that I'm not attempting to diss the guy[*] - he provided the information I needed, and his English is way better than my second language.

But it did get me thinking about ( idiomatic English )